Oscar 2024: 'I Captain' by Matteo Garrone is on the shortlist for nominations

Oscar 2024: 'I Captain' by Matteo Garrone is on the shortlist for nominations.

I Captain has entered the list of 15 films that will lead to the final five nominations of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which will be announced on January 23rd. The shortlists for the ten categories have been announced by the Academy.

The five final titles will then be chosen from the shortlist for the 2024 Oscars for the awaited nominations.

The 96th Academy Awards ceremony will be held on March 10.

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I, the Captain, has won numerous awards, including the Silver Lion for Best Director at Venice alone, the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Actor for young Seydou Sarr, the Best Original Score Award for Andrea Farri, and six other accolades. The film, shot in Senegal, Morocco, and Italy, is a romantic and adventurous tale, the odyssey of two young men who embark on a terrifying journey through the perils of the desert to reach Europe.

Last September, the Selection Committee for the Italian film to be nominated for the Oscars, established by ANICA on behalf of the Academy, had chosen Matteo Garrone's film to represent Italy at the 96th edition of the Academy Awards, in the selection for the category International Feature Film Award, with the following motivation: “For having embodied with great power and cinematic mastery the universal desire to seek freedom and happiness. Creating an epic dream that stages the courage and pain that have always marked migrations, in a dimension of profound humanity."

Among the more than 50 countries that submitted nominations for Best Foreign Film, the following made the short list: Amerikatsi (Armenia), The Monk and the Gun (Bhutan), The Promised Land (Denmark), Fallen Leaves (Finland), The Taste of Things (France), The Teachers' Lounge (Germany), Godland (Iceland), Perfect Days (Japan), Totem (Mexico), The Mother of All Lies (Morocco), Society of the Snow (Spain), Four Daughters (Tunisia ), 20 Days in Mariupol (Ukraine), The Zone of Interest (Great Britain).

Also announced this evening are the shortlists for best documentary feature film (15), documentary short film (15), international feature film (15), make-up and hairstyling (10), sound (10), original soundtrack (15), original song (15) , animated short film (15), live action short film (15) and visual effects (10), all available on the Academy website.